The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.